[WinAVR-users] [ winavr-Bugs-1884949 ] System Path Blown Away After Install of WinAVR-20071221

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Bugs item #1884949, was opened at 2008-02-01 16:40
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Category: Installer
Group: v1.0 (example)
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 7
Private: No
Submitted By: Craig Greenlaw (craiggreenlaw)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: System Path Blown Away After Install of WinAVR-20071221

Initial Comment:
After installing WinAVR-20071221 my system wide path was reduced to only:

C:\WinAVR-20071221\bin;C:\WinAVR-20071221\utils\bin

Luckily I am able to recover most of my path from other machines with similar software installations, but I am sure others are completely out of luck.

Basic entries like:

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;

Are gone.

Please look into this problem.

Craig

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>Comment By: Eric Weddington (arcanum)
Date: 2010-01-12 17:39

Message:
Closing as "Won't Fix".

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Comment By: eightyfiv (eightyfiv)
Date: 2008-12-12 22:24

Message:
Oh. And path1.log is empty (0b), and path2.log is
"C:\devtools\WinAVR\20081205\utils\bin". Which isn't all that surprising...

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Comment By: eightyfiv (eightyfiv)
Date: 2008-12-12 22:22

Message:
'nother victim here. 

Path before:
PATH=C:\DevTools\Perl\site\bin;C:\DevTools\Perl\bin;c:\devtools\watcom-1.3\binnt;c:\devtools\watcom-1.3\binw;c:\program
files\windows resource
kits\tools\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem;c:\program
files\ati technologies\ati control panel;c:\program
files\openafs\client\program;c:\program files\openafs\common;c:\program
files\kerberos\;c:\program files\symantec\norton ghost
2003\;c:\sfu\common\;c:\program files\microsoft sql
server\90\tools\binn\;c:\devtools\jdk1.5.0_06\bin;c:\devtools\apache-ant-1.6.5\bin;c:\devtools\bc7\bin;c:\devtools\bc7\binb;C:\DevTools\Usrp\bin;c:\program
files\subversion\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2007a\bin;C:\Program
Files\MATLAB\R2007a\bin\win32;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Driver Test
Manager\Controller\;C:\DevTools\IronPython-1.1.2\;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\90\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\

After:
C:\devtools\WinAVR\20081205\bin;C:\devtools\WinAVR\20081205\utils\bin

XP SP2, AVR Studio just installed, no other WinAVR or AVR anything
previously installed. As you can see, a disturbing amount of other crap
present. (Could long paths be an issue? Insufficient buffer space when
querying? Or what about case sensitivity in querying prior value?)

At any rate, you could just punt and issue an error if the path string has
only two entries when you're about to write it and tell the user to
manually punch 'em in. I'm lucky I had a dos box open (with the prior path
intact), or I'd have to do a system restore.

--eightyfiv

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Comment By: Eric Weddington (arcanum)
Date: 2008-03-19 10:40

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Again, I cannot reproduce this on my system. However, I am adding some
logging capabilities to the installer. The installer will write the
contents of the PATH environment variable to a log file before it changes
it. The installer changes the PATH environment variable twice, once to add
the Utilities directory, and another time to add the Binaries directory. So
there will actually be two log files written with the contents of the PATH
variable before it gets changed. Hopefully this can be used to track down
which step is failing, but at the very least it will make recovery of the
PATH environment variable easier. This is all I can do right now until this
can be reliably reproduced. But I will keep this bug report open until this
gets figured out.

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Comment By: Manny (corio)
Date: 2008-03-07 09:21

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FYI, my system is:

Windows XP SP2
Dell 370 Precision Workstation.

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Comment By: Manny (corio)
Date: 2008-03-06 12:52

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I am having the exact same problem with this version 'WinAVR-20071221'.  I
am not sure what is causing this to occur but it didn't happen on one
system but did on another so giving instruction on how to replicate this
issue is not possible for me at this point.  I never had a previous version
of WinAVR installed on the system in question so that is definitely not the
issue.

Any help would be great..

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Comment By: Craig Greenlaw (craiggreenlaw)
Date: 2008-02-23 12:06

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I believe the previously installed version was 20070122.  If I remember
correctly I uninstalled 20070122 after installing 20071221.  Does this help
any?

Craig

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Comment By: Craig Greenlaw (craiggreenlaw)
Date: 2008-02-23 01:06

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On a machine that has never had winavr installed I didn't have a problem
with PATH corruption.  The machine on which I had the reported problem had
a previous installation of winavr.  Unfortunately I don't recall which
version was installed.  Do you know if the previous version my be stored in
the registry?  I haven't searched it yet, but I can if needed.

Craig

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Comment By: Craig Greenlaw (craiggreenlaw)
Date: 2008-02-23 00:40

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This was also noted in bug# 1800537.

I don't have the machine in front of me right now, but I will on Monday. 
I am trying it on another machine right now.  I'll let you know if it
occurs again.

Craig

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Comment By: Eric Weddington (arcanum)
Date: 2008-02-02 08:32

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I have had one other report about this issue (on AVR Freaks IIRC), but I
am unable to reproduce the problem on my machine. Can you give me some more
details about your machine and OS version?

Thanks,
Eric Weddington

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